Thank you Boruto for giving us middle age narusasu (and theyâre still pinning idiots) if nothing else. đ I made a mini comic to show my appreciation đĽš
Sakura Haruno and Mikasa Ackerman as parallels - How Misogyny ruins the potential of female characters (1/2)
Sakura Haruno and Mikasa Ackerman are frequently upheld as examples of strong female characters within shounen anime. Both are physically capable but beneath this surface level strength they are a great representation of how misogyny ruins not only the potential in female characters, but also especially when those characters serve a main role, can influence the whole story in a bad way.
The first parallel between Mikasa and Sakura is both characters are constructed to uphold a misogynistic ideal in which blind devotion to a male character is framed as moral virtue, while female agency and autonomy are minimised. Their narratives reward endurance and loyalty over selfhood, reducing them to reflections of the men they love rather than fully developed individuals.
At the core of both charactersâ arcs is the same lesson, and that is that devotion, regardless how self destructive it is, is a virtue. Mikasaâs loyalty to Eren is never meaningfully interrogated by the narrative. Despite Erenâs descent into genocide and his repeated emotional cruelty toward her, Mikasa faces no consequences for her blind loyalty. Even after killing him, she undergoes no ideological or emotional reckoning with his actions. Instead, the ending reinforces her false purity, she continues to love him, refers to him as her âmost beloved,â is buried with his scarf, and is symbolically associated with white flowers. The story suggests that unconditional loyalty to an immoral man is forgivable and noble.
Sakuraâs narrative follows a parallel trajectory. Her blind devotion to Sasuke Uchiha (despite his abandonment, emotional neglect, and repeated attempts to harm or even murder her) is consistently framed as her defining strength. When Kakashi reflects on Narutoâs dream and wonders about Sasukeâs future after achieving his revenge during the war, Sakuraâs âresolutionâ is reduced to a single trait, which is that she stayed devoted to Sasuke. The narrative does not frame her endurance as tragic or damaging, but as proof of emotional maturity. In both cases, devotion replaces growth, and suffering is mistaken for strength.
In the same scene, Kishimoto portrays emotional attachment and loyalty, regardless of the harm the other has caused you, as kindness and gentleness. In Sakuraâs case, her kindness is represented through the fact that she hasnât questioned Sasukeâs abuse and repeated murder attempts, but stayed devoted.
After the trauma and abuse Sasuke put her through, she still considers to follow after him and marry him. Sakuraâs trauma is pushed aside and the abuse and disrespect she experienced from Sasuke is completely forgotten. Her character teaches young girls that itâs a virtue to face disrespect and abuse for love, and that it will once pay off with marriage. Most importantly, Sasuke does not become a good husband in Boruto. His actions in this relationship are completely irrelevant, portraying that a man offering marriage, regardless of what his character is like, is a form of reciprocation, framing Sasuke as a morally correct man.
Even in their marriage, Sasuke fails to respect Sakura (as he always did, but I will come to this later) and appreciate his family. After leaving Sakura to be a single mother and neglecting his daughter for 12 years, Sasuke does not show a single sign of happiness upon meeting them again, and responds with dislike and disapproval.
Sakura and Mikasa prioritize their romantic interests over every other relationship and value system in their lives. Sakuraâs primary goal throughout the series is to âcatch up to Naruto and Sasuke,â and to bring Sasuke back to the village, while Narutoâs goals also include becoming Hokage, positioning her development as inherently only relative to male characters.
Even in moments of extreme danger, her emotional focus remains Sasuke-centered. When she is stabbed by Madara and worries not about the enemy who nearly killed her, but that Sasuke did not notice her. Her inner world is consistently oriented around male validation rather than self-defined purpose.
Mikasaâs motivations are even more narrowly confined. Her guiding principle is singularly to protect Eren. She lacks an independent philosophy, political stance, or long term goal outside of him. While Eren develops his own dreams, ideologies, and ambitions, Mikasaâs plans are entirely reactive. She explicitly states that all she wants is to be by his side.
Notably, both characters also lack meaningful emotional relationships with other women. Their narratives do not allow them deep female friendships or dynamics independent of romantic rivalry or support roles. This absence does not only show their centrism around males, but also reinforces a broader misogynistic pattern, which is that womenâs emotional lives are portrayed as incomplete unless centered on men.
Neither Sakura nor Mikasa is allowed meaningful development beyond these dynamics. Sakuraâs supposed intelligence is repeatedly undermined by her actions. Instead of being given decisive battles or strategic triumphs, she is repeatedly reduced to love confessions and emotional manipulation: attempting to stop Sasuke by claiming she wants to join him, or trying to protect Naruto by falsely confessing love. These moments present her as emotionally driven rather than intellectually capable, contradicting the narrativeâs insistence that she is exceptionally smart.
Mikasa, similarly, never develops an independent moral framework. She avoids confronting Erenâs wrongdoing when they are mentioned, explicitly refusing to discuss his actions and remaining in denial even when others challenge her. She is shown to be in the constant denial about his actions. Her silence functions as submission. While Eren is allowed ideological extremity and narrative centrality, Mikasa is denied the same philosophical depth.
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Some sasuke fans glorify taka and say they are the real one's there for sasuke and how he got MS while trying to save karin and shit on team 7(including naruto, I hate team 7 myself). They try really hard to erase how much obsessed sasuke himself was over naruto like calling him one and only, being not able to kill him even tho he could and protecting him throughout war arc. Not to mention how during that scene where he was fucking blind and obito was like lets go, yet he stood there insisting on hearing out naruto. These fans really try to make it like naruto was the only one obsessed with sasuke and always say how he wants to drag sasuke to village which massacred his clan, when naruto 1) was only scared at first because sasuke went to orochimaru who quite literally said how he would have sasuke's body, 2) after he learned abt massacre he never mention about bringing sasuke to village but rather stop him from his revolution (which was basically him making himself public enemy 1 and isolating himself). They grossly misinterpret everything naruto does as if projecting their hatred on village to him, when sasuke himself does not, it just makes me question if they even know sasuke or do they just pick what they like and run on headcanons and pushing agendas.
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l wouldn't know what to tell you because you've already said it all. Those Sasuke fans (just like those Naruto fans) are simply projecting their negative feelings And they'll make you believe that one "harms the other" even though neither Sasuke nor Naruto feel attacked by the other's decisions
Talking about Naruto as if he were the number one villain who forced Sasuke to listen to him, as if he hit him and Sasuke didn't attack, as if he projected everything and forced him
Vote 1 will only show a before and after in Naruto, since later he will learn to understand Sasuke. Vote 1 only serves to compare, in a true Naruto full of pain and anger because he doesn't understand why His friend wants to leave with a guy who will kill him and use his body. He can't believe he's abandoning the village either. Why is he doing it? Naruto searches for answers. It hurts him that Sasuke wants to die. Naruto is hurt that he's leaving him
Then in Shippuden, the whole time it's Naruto trying to understand Sasuke, while Sakura and Kakashi get tired of him and try to kill him Naruto sat in the snow, pondering how to soothe Sasuke's hatred, how to make the world understand that Sasuke was hurt and didn't need to die, Naruto was trying to combine people with Sasuke.
Kishimoto literally demonstrates a before and after; Jiraiya had to die to teach Naruto about Sasuke's pain.
Sasuke is a character who goes through various stages and emotions; he is a character who changes his mind depending on what they are feeling or what is happening at the time
It wasn't Naruto who forced Sasuke to listen to him in vote 2 that time when he said he wanted to die alongside him, Naruto wasn't looking for him when he was in the war; it was Sasuke who wanted to protect him and take him away. It wasn't Naruto who started the final battle between them that knocked down Sasuke's defeat and changed his opinion of how he saw things from then on
you definitely know that these people are projecting their thoughts because Sasuke is the one who is most grateful to Naruto, because he was the only one who didn't give up on him
It's true that it might be misinterpreted as "Naruto is the only obsessive one," but if you read the manga without filler, you'll see that they're both equally obsessed, Sasuke knows perfectly well what Naruto looks like physically, so he's not fooled by a copy of just any ninja, He wanted to fight Naruto because he considered him extremely strong and wanted to land punches with him, He ran for miles to save him from Itachi that time; Sasuke feels so connected to Naruto that he'll defend him from bullying, During the war, he wanted to take him along with Team Taka and leave everyone else to fight powerful opponents, Even before Itachi's death, Naruto was important to him, but after Itachi died, this intensified because Naruto was the only light he had left, Sasuke awakened his Sharingan, "the eye that awakens through love," according to Tobirama, because of Naruto twice. I could spend hours talking about Sasuke's care and obsession with Naruto But this would be endless.
sasuke feels affection for his teammates and those who are there for him, yes, no one can deny that. But none of them is Naruto Uzumaki, it's that simple.
Most of these Sasuke fans are either Sakura fans projecting their hatred onto Naruto, or they're just people who misunderstand things and their hatred is directed at the person who loves and cares for Sasuke the most, They'll all look like idiots anyway because Kishimoto himself will say through his manga and interviews that Sasuke is for Naruto and Naruto is for Sasuke, They won't change the manga
I suppose I could apologize for the late reply; I don't have Tumblr notifications turned on, so every little buzz I get in the questions.
when naruto is scared for sasuke he loses control and becomes the nine tailed fox. the nine tails can only be controlled by the sharingan. only sasuke has the sharingan. the sharingan is motivated by love.
when naruto is scared for sasuke he loses control and becomes the nine tailed fox. the nine tails can only be controlled by the sharingan. only sasuke has the sharingan. the sharingan is motivated by love.
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